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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 May 20;232(17):3123–3133. doi: 10.1007/s00213-015-3957-3

Table 1.

CUS, ketamine, HFS, and AST treatment schedule

Day 1 Restraint (30 min)
Day 2 Shaking/crowding (1 hr; 6 rats/box; 220 back and forth movements/min)
Day 3 Social defeat (45 min continued protected exposure post-defeat)
Day 4 Warm swim ( 15 min)
Day 5 Wet bedding (24 hrs)
Day 6 Cold swim (10 min)
Day7 Shaking/crowding
Day 8 Footshock (15 min; 1.5mA, 5 sec on/ 5 sec off for 30 sec. every 3 min)
Day 9 Social defeat
Day 10 Warm swim (begin food restriction for AST)
Day 11 Footshock
Day 12 Tall pinch (10 min)
Day 13 Cold swim
Day 14 Footshock
Day 15 AST Habituation
Day 16 AST Training
Day 17 Drug injection or High frequency stimulation (HFS)
Day 18 AST Testing (24 hrs after HFS)
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